In this paper, an efficient method is presented to control the attitude of a satellite with ON-OFF actuator. The main objective of this novel method is to control the amplitude of the limit cycle which commonly appears in the steady state of such systems; and at the same time by consideration of real actuator constraints, reduce the fuel consumption of system. The Proposed method is a combinati...

High-performance control design for a flexible space structure is challenging as highfidelity plant models are difficult to obtain a priori. Uncertainty in the control design models typically require a very robust, low-performance control design, which must be tuned onorbit to achieve the required performance. Closed-loop system identification is often required to obtain a multivariable open-lo...

The task of implementing a supervisory controller is non-trivial, even though different theories exist that allow automatic synthesis of these controllers in the form of automata. One of the reasons for this discord is due to the asynchronous interaction between a plant and its controller in implementations, whereas the existing supervisory control theories assume synchronous interaction. As a ...

In this paper the reflection and transmission of waves by a threedimensional random medium are studied in a white-noise and paraxial regime. The limit system derives from the acoustic wave equations and is described by a coupled system of random Schrödinger equations driven by a Brownian field whose covariance is determined by the two-point statistics of the fluctuations of the random medium. F...

Over the years numerous models of SIS (susceptible → infected → susceptible) disease dynamics unfolding on networks have been proposed. Here, we discuss the links between many of these models and how they can be viewed as more general motif-based models. We illustrate how the different models can be derived from one another and, where this is not possible, discuss extensions to established mode...

It is known that straightforward application of the classical Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism to systems with mass varying explicitly with position may lead to discrepancies in the formulation of the equations of motion. Systems with mass varying explicitly with position often arise from situations where the partitioning of a closed system of constant mass leads to open subsystems that exc...

Growing importance and commonness of video surveillance systems brings new possibilities in the area of crime suspect identification. While suspects can be recognized on video recordings, it is often a difficult task, because in most cases parts of suspect’s face are occluded. Even if there are multiple cameras, and the recordings are long enough to expose entirety of suspect’s face, it is chal...

The goal of this paper is to propose a performance assessment for normally closed-loop type distribution power systems. Pilot relaying systems have been successfully applied to the protection scheme for normally closed-loop distribution systems in the Taiwan Power Company (Taipower). This paper demonstrates that the proposed protection scheme is extremely well designed, such that both the numbe...

Group behaviour characterisation is a topic not so well studied in the video surveillance community due to its difficulty and large variety of topics involved, but mainly because the lack of valid semantic concepts that relate collective activity to social context. In this work, our proposal is three-fold: a new definition of semantic concepts for social group analysis considering environment c...

Biosphere 2 is a closed ecosystem located near Tucson, Arizona, designed for studying the interactions between different biological species among each other and with their materially closed controlled environment, taking into account the limited resources that such an environment provides. Energy considerations play a central role in how these interactions play out. To this end, bond graph mode...